It’s another good political-leaning comedy program, which I have plenty of time for. I watch basically four of these shows.
Samantha Bee killed it hosting this which, frankly, makes me really sad that she didn’t get TDS because I’m not a big fan of what Trevor Noah is doing with the show.
Not a similar format show but also hosted by a very funny lady: “Not Safe” with Nikki Glaser. You can stream it form Comedy Central’s site if you don’t have cable. Some bits feel like they are going for a tone that Schumer’s show kind of made popular, but that’s ok. It’s a well made show that really made me laugh.
Well, you can’t copyright book or movie titles. I assume that applies to TV show titles. So, the question would be is that title trademarked, and does the territory for that mark include the United States?
It would certainly fall under trademark and not copyright. But since they’re both comedy shows (albeit different formats) and Comedy Central has the US distribution rights for the Australian TV series my guess is that TBS probably had to strike a trademark deal with them.
The biggest problem I have with Trevor Noah is that he struggles with an Autocue. He often stumbles over a line which makes it very apparent that the thoughts he’s reading are not his. He kills as a standup partly because his timing is perfect, but in that situation he has memorised his lines.
Sam Bee is almost certainly using an Autocue as well but you’d never know it. Lije Jon Stuart, she’s a natural, totally at ease with the material and seemingly very relaxed. She makes the job look easy, when of course it really isn’t. In my view she’s much better than my fellow Brit John Oliver whose deliverY on LWT sometimes seems over the top and unnatural. Both would be much better than Noah on The Daily Show, let’s hope it gets fixed.
Your Latin is right and Cory’s fails. The plural of the masculine “alumnus” is “alumni”, and the plural of “alumna” is “alumnae”. If that’s too much to remember, you can substitute “alum” for any of them. (Conveniently, it can also be used to mean a class of ionic compounds.)
